Anyway – the concept is interesting. They engineer the bacterium E. coli in various ways and then show that they can get these engineered cells to form fibrils that are controllable and responsive and thus can be used to make living, controllable materials. This is a different angle on the “microbiology of the built environment” for sure – but certainly an interesting one.

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